One look at that lifeguard's prong gave me a throbber like a baseball bat — not quite that big, of course, but at least that hard!

In Hupeh District it is at work in fifteen counties :…Anlu,…So far as the foreign staff is concerned there were no men added in 1915 and only three ladies: Miss Weaver for evangelistic work in Wuchang, Miss Stephenson for the Anlu Hospital, and Miss McCord for evangelistic work at Anlu.

The front desk had already made a great fuss of Johnny and Mary, lining up to greet him at the famous porte-cochère as soon as his splendid old Rolls-Royce had arrived with his faithful driver, factotum and friend John Novelli at the wheel.

[…] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]